The Event


CONTENTS


Translator's Introductionxix

Forewords

xxiii

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, vv. 73–74.

xxiii

This “presentation” does not describe and report

xxiii

The destiny of beyng devolves upon the thinkers

xxiv

The dispensation of beyng in the event toward the beginning

xxiv

Not only throughout all the world

xxiv

In regard to Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)


I. The first beginning

A. The first beginning
ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ


3

1. The first beginning

4

2. Ἀλήθεια—ἰδέα

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3. Errancy

5

4. Ἀλήθεια (Plato)

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5. ἕν out of οὐσία

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6. Truth and being for the Greeks (Said and unsaid)

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7. ἀ-λήθεια

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8. Ἀλήθεια and “space and time”

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9. Ἀλήθεια and the first beginning (φύσις)

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10. ἀ-λήθεια

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11. In the first beginning

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12. Truth and the true

9

13. Unconcealedness

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14. φύσις—ἀλήθεια—beyng

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15. Ἀ-λήθεια and the open

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16. Truth and beyng

12

17. ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ

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18. “Truth” and beyng

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19. On the question of truth

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20. The moment of consolidation

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21. ἀλήθεια—ἰδέα

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22. Truth and being

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23. ἀγαθόν

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24. How ἀλήθεια

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25. To say simply

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26. How ἀλήθεια

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27. ταὐτόν

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28. ταὐτόν

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29. How νοῦς—λόγος—ψυχή

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30. How to come to steadfastness now for the first time

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31. One cannot

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32. The ground of the transformation of the essence of truth

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33. φύσις—ἀλήθεια

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34. φύσις—the emergence that goes back into itself

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35. Ἀλήθεια → ὁμοίωσις

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36. Beyng and the human being

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37. The beyngs of beyng

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38. The first beginning

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39. The experience of the disentanglement in the first beginning

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40. τὸ ἕν—τὸ ταὐτόν—ἀλήθεια

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41. The experience of the first beginning

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42. The first beginning

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43. For the interpretation

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44. Beyng is


B. Δόξα


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45. From ἀλήθεια—φύσις to the ἰδέα over δόξα

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46. τὰ δοκοῦντα

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48. The provenance of δόξα

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49. ἀλήθεια—δόξα

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50. Parmenides

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51. δόξα

26

52. δόξα and τὰ δοκοῦντα

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53. γίνεσθαι—ὄλλυσθαι


C. Anaximander


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54. If the ἄπειρον of Anaximander were ἀλήθεια?

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55. The transition

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56. τὸ πέρας—τὸ ἄπειρον

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57. ἀδικία

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58. In the dictum of Anaximander

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59. The utterance of being


D. Western thinking
Reflexion
Da-seyn


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60. Thoughtful thinking and the “concept”

34

61. Why nothing “comes forth” in “thinking” (as “philosophy”)

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62. The beginning of Western thinking

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63. To think about thinking

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64. The beginning of thinking

36

65. Philosophy—thinking—being

37

66. Tradition out of the essence of historiality

37

67. History and historiology


E. Under way toward the first beginning
The preparation for the thinking of beyng in its historicality
So as to remain on the bridge


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68. Key words with respect to being

38

69. To arrive at the domain of the disposition . . .

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70. The transition

40

71. The collapse of Ἀλήθεια out of the global mountain range; the beginning of the destiny of being.


F. The first beginning


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72. The time is coming

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73. Truth and cognition

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74. On the presentation of the first beginning

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75. The essence of being in the first beginning

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76. Recollection into the first beginning

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77. φύσις and the first beginning

46

78. What does not yet begin in the first beginning

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79. The first beginning and its inceptuality

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80. The first beginning as Ἀλήθεια

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81. In the first beginning

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82. The thinkers of the first beginning

49

83. The first beginning

50

84. The interpretation of the first beginning

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85. In regard to the interpretation of the first beginning

51

86. The interpretative recollection

52

87. Procedure

52

88. The obvious objection

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89. Anaximander and Heraclitus

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90. Anaximander and Parmenides

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91. Heraclitus and Parmenides


G. The first beginning


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92. The first beginning. ἀλήθεια

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93. To show the first (beginning)

55

94. The concealed ineffability of the first beginning

56

95. The first beginning

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96. The first beginning

56

97. Not all thinkers at the start

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98. The first beginning

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99. The first beginning


G. The first beginning


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100. Ἀλήθεια → ὀρθότης

58

101. The advancement out of the first beginning

58

102. Presence, constancy, rigidity

58

103. φύσις—ἰδέα


II. THE RESONATING

A. The resonating
Vista


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104. The resonating

63

105. The resonating

64

106. The resonating

64

107. The history of beyng

65

108. The resonating

65

109. The first resonating is that of the passing by

66

110. The resonating


B. The signs of the transition
The passing by
The in-between of the history of beyng


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111. Signs of being in the age of the consummation of metaphysics

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112. The errancy of the errant star as the in-between of the passing by

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113. The essence of truth in the passing by

69

114. The unavoidable

70

115. The demise of metaphysics; the transition

71

116. The passing by

71

117. The passing by

72

118. The passing by

72

119. The passing by

72

120. The resonating

73

121. The overcoming of metaphysics


C. Modernity and the West


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122. The demise of metaphysics; the transition to the first beginning

74

123. God-lessness experienced in terms of the history of beyng

75

124. The consummation of modernity

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125. The passing by

77

126. The time of the thinking of the history of beyng

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127. The will to willing

78

128. The errancy of machination

79

129. The essence of “modernity”

79

130. Modernity and the West

80

131. “The West” and “Europe”

80

132. The West and Europe

81

133. Abandonment by being; the West

82

134. “The West”

82

135. The West

83

136. World-history and the West

85

137. Certainty, security, establishment, calculation, and order

85

138. Devastation

86

139. The inceptuality of the beginning; beyng


D. Metaphysics
The episode
between
the first beginning and the other beginning
The transition
(its signs)


87

140. Metaphysics

87

141. "Metaphysics"

88

142. Beginning and advancement

88

143. Metaphysics and beyng

88

144. How and in what sense

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145. Metaphysics

89

146. The demise of metaphysics in the will to willing

90

147. “Essence” and “being”

90

148. The end of metaphysics; “world-picture”

91

149. The consummation of metaphysics

91

150. Steadfastness within the beginning

92

151. “Being”

92

152. “Order” and the forgottenness of being

93

153. The end of metaphysics; reflection

93

154. The last remnants of the demise of “philosophy” in the age of the consummation of metaphysics

94

155. Forgottenness of being

94

156. Being as machination

95

157. Being as the non-sensory

95

158. Metaphysics: Kant and Schelling—Hegel

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159. Truth as certainty

96

160. Biological “life” (Nietzsche)

97

161. Metaphysics

97

162. The demise of metaphysics

97

163. The saying


E. The will to willing


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164. “Being” in metaphysics

99

165. The will to willing

99

166. The will to willing


III. THE DIFFERENCE


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167. Beyng

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168. Introduction

104

169. The difference (Outline)

106

170. The difference and nothingness

106

171. The difference and the event

106

172. The difference

107

173. The difference

108

174. The difference and the “understanding of being”

109

175. The differentiation

110

176. The differentiation and the difference

113

177. Negativity and no-saying

113

178. Nothingness


IV. THE TWISTING FREE


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179. Outline

117

180. The history of beyng

118

181. The history of beyng

122

182. The conjuncture of beyng

122

183. The conjuncture of beyng


V. THE EVENT

The vocabulary of its essence


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184. The event. The vocabulary of its essence

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185. The treasure of the word


VI. THE EVENT


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186. The event. Outline

153

187. The appropriating event

154

188. Event and compassion

154

189. Beginning and the appropriating event

155

190. Event and domain of what is proper

155

191. Event and fate

155

192. The appropriating event is incursion

156

193. Event—experience

156

194.To show—to eventuate


VII. THE EVENT AND THE HUMAN BEING


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195. The event and the human being

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196. The event—The human being

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197. The event

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198. The event; the human being as understood with respect to the history of beyng, i.e., with respect to historiality

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199. The event and the human being

164

200. The event and the human being

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201. The event and the human being

165

202. Being and death

166

203. What cannot be experienced of the beginning

167

204. The beginning and the human being

168

205. Beyng and the human being

169

206. The beginning and the human being

170

207. The human being and being

170

208. Being and the human being

171

209. Beyng and the human being

171

210. Beyng and the human being—The simple experience

171

211. Being and the human being


VIII. DA-SEYN


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212. Da-sein. Outline

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213. Da-seyn

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214. Da-sein

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215. Da-sein

177

216. Da-sein

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217. All beyng is Da-seyn

178

218. “Dasein” (history of the word)

178

219. Da and Da-sein

178

220. The clearing and its semblant emptiness

178

221. The simple and the desolate

179

222. In Da-sein

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223. Da-sein

179

224. Beyng—as Da-seyn

180

225. The temporal domain of godlessness with respect to the history of beyng (experienced godlessness)

180

226. Da-sein illuminates

180

227. Da-sein and “openness”


A. The human being as understood with respect
to the history of beyng
and
Da-seyn (steadfastness)


181

228. Steadfastness

182

229. The nobility of indigence

182

230. Steadfastness

182

231. Steadfastness in Da-sein

182

232. Knowledge

183

233. The event and historial humanity

183

234. The nobility of humans and their indigence in the history of beyng

183

235. The event and the human being

184

236. The open realm of concealment

184

237. Steadfastness and the clearing of the “there”

185

238. The incomparable


B. Da-seyn
Time-space
Da-sein and “reflexion”
Steadfastness and disposition


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239. “Reflexion”

186

240. Da-sein—“space”


C. Disposition and Da-sein
The pain of the question-worthiness of beyng


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241. Disposition

187

242. “Disposition”

189

243. The disposition of thinking is the voice of beyng

190

244. Downgoing and its disposition

190

245. Da-sein and thanking

191

246. The basic dispositions of the history of beyng

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247. The basic dispositions of the history of beyng

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248. Predisposition

192

249. Voice, disposition, “feelings”


IX. The other beginning


195

250. In what does the essential unity of event and beginning dwell?

195

251. The counter-turn in the event and the beginning

195

252. The beginning

196

253. The beginning

197

254. The last god


X. Directives to the event

A. The enduring of the difference (distinction)
Experience as the pain “of” the departure


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255. Pain—experience—knowledge

201

256. Experience

202

257. The pain of the enduring

203

258. Enduring as thanking

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259. The enduring of the difference

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260. Inceptual thinking is abyssal thinking

207

261. Beyng is experienced

207

262. The question: In what way?

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263. The thinking of the history of beyng says beyng

208

264. Enduring and questioning The question-worthiness of beyng

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265. The essence of experience The question-worthiness of beyng

210

266. Founding and enduring


B. The thinking of the history of beyng
The enduring of the difference (distinction)
The care of the abyss
The timber trail
Thinking and the word


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267. The thinking of the history of beyng

213

268. The thinking of the history of beyng

213

269. The thinking of the history of beyng in the transition

214

270. The thinking of the history of beyng

214

271. The thinking of the history of beyng. The thoughtful word

217

272. The thinking of the history of beyng

217

273. The event

217

274. Thinking

218

275. The discrepancy in the priority of presentation

218

276. The beginning—inexperience

219

277. The inconsolable departure

219

278. The thinking of the history of beyng; the concept

220

279. Inceptual thinking

220

280. The enduring of the difference

221

281. Thinking as enduring

221

282. The enduring

222

283. The gainsaying in the saying of the event

222

284. The timber trail

223

285. Beginning and immediacy

224

286. Inceptual thinking in its origination out of metaphysics

225

287. If being bends toward itself the track of mankind

226

288. The thinking of beyng

226

289. Thinking and words

227

290. Beyng—thinking


C. Toward a first elucidation of the basic words
“Truth” (With regard to: The saying of the first beginning)
The “essence” and the “essential occurrence”
History and historiality

a. The “essence” and the “essential occurrence”

228

291. Beyng and essence


b. History

229

292. Terminology

229

293. History is historiality

230

294. The essence of historiality

231

295. History

231

296. History

232

297. Overcoming, transition, beginning

233

298. The history of being

234

299. Space and time

234

300. History and historiology

234

301. Going under


XI. The thinking of the history of beyng
(Thinking and poetizing)

A. The experience of that which is worthy of questioning
The leap
The confrontation
The clarification of action
The knowledge of thinking


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302. Guiding notions

239

303. The thinking of the history of beyng is the inceptual experience of the twisting free of beyng

240

304. The first step of inceptual thinking

240

305. The knowledge of thinking

241

306. How the thoughtful thinking of beyng is a thanking

242

307. The thinking of the history of beyng is the non-transitory departure of beyng

243

308. The thinking of beyng

243

309. The all-arousing, constant experience of the thinking of the history of beyng

244

310. Thoughtful grounding as exposition of the ground. Grounding and experience. To remain in the most proper law of thinking

244

311. The thoughtful assertion

244

312. The thinking of the history of beyng with regard to the beginning

245

313. Thoughtful saying and its claim

246

314. The word

247

315. The leap

248

316. The clarification of what is to be done

249

317. “Critique”


B. The beginning and heedfulness


250

318. The experience of the beginning

250

319. Experience

250

320. Markings and heedfulness

251

321. On heedfulness

251

322. On heedfulness

251

323. Heedfulness

252

324. Heedfulness

252

325. Forgottenness of being

252

326. The forgottenness of being

253

327. The forgottenness of being; heedfulness

254

328. Being and beings

254

329. Beginning and being

254

330. The decision


C. The saying of the beginning


255

331. The word, metaphysics, and the beginning

255

332. The word of inceptual thinking

256

333. The thinking of the history of beyng and the demand for univocity, non-contradiction, non-circularity, and comprehensibility

257

334. Within the first attempt at the thinking of the history of beyng

257

335. The saying of the beginning

258

336. The saying of the beginning

260

337. The saying of the beginning

261

338. The inceptual claim of the beginning

261

339. Inceptual thinking

262

340. Beginning as ἀρχή; inceptual thinking

262

341. Beginning and recollection

262

342. The saying of the beginning


D. Thinking and knowing
Thinking and poetizing


265

343. Poetizing—Thinking

266

344. To be greeted; Da-sein

266

345. The transition

267

346. Poetizing and thinking

267

347. Thinking and poetizing

268

348. Silence and saying

268

349. Thanking

268

350. Essential thinking

269

351. Essential thinking

270

352. Thinking and poetizing

270

353. Admission and steadfastness

270

354. Admission and detachment

271

355. The shyness in the beginning

271

356. “Thinking”

272

357. Thanking and silence

272

358. Thinking and thanking

272

359. Thanking and beyng

273

360. Appropriating event and thanking

273

361. Thinking

274

362. Thinking and cognition

275

363. Thinking


E. Poetizing and thinking


278

364. Poetizing and thinking

278

365. Thinking and poetizing


F. The poet and the thinker


280

366. Poetizing and thinking

281

367. The truth of Hölderlin’s poetry

282

368. The first and most extreme separation of thinking and poetizing

282

369. Thinking and poetizing

282

370. Poetizing and thinking

283

371. Poetizing and thinking

284

372. The thanking of the renunciation is thoughtful thanking

285

373. With respect to the history of beyng, the future essence of the poet and the thinker

289

374. Poetizing and thinking in their relation to the word

289

375. One thinker and another


G. “Commentary” and “interpretation”

a. Thinking with respect to Hölderlin. “Interpretation”

290

376. Hölderlin

290

377. The interpretation of Hölderlin

290

378. “Interpretations” of “Hölderlin”

291

379. Thinking about Hölderlin

292

380. The interpretation of Hölderlin within the other thinking


b. “Commentary” and “interpretation”

292

381. “Commentary”

293

382. Commentary and interpretation

294

383. Comments

294

384. The comments

295

385. Comments

296

386. The interpretation


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Editor's Afterword


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German-English Glossary

307

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